John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American
landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Kensett's early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition.[1] The work of Kensett's maturity features tranquil scenery depicted with a spare geometry, culminating in series of paintings in which coastal promontories are balanced against glass-smooth water.[2] He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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JohnFrederickKensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member...
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(1857) by JohnFrederickKensett, View on Lake George (1857) by John William Casilear and Beach at Beverly (c. 1869/1872) by JohnFrederickKensett. His son...
depicting the splendors of the natural world. In the Evergreens, John F. Kensett's Sunset with Cows (1856) bears Susan's name on the back, and in one...
elaborately decorated Christmas tree. The Cloisters was a principal project of John D. Rockefeller Jr., a major benefactor of the Met. Located in Fort Tryon...
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though one was by that time in fragments and being used as bed curtains. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought them in 1922 for about one million US dollars....
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Publishing: Canaan, New Hampshire 1974. Driscoll, John Paul, and John K. Howat, JohnFrederickKensett: An American Master, New York: Worcester Art Museum...
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$700,000, retaining Barnard as an advisor. In 1927 Rockefeller hired Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., son of one of the designers of Central Park, and the...
Met added a new wing to its flagship building. Architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo of Roche-Dinkeloo in Connecticut designed the new wing for the museum...
room also featured paintings by John Bunyan Bristol, Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Hart, JohnFrederickKensett, Emanuel Leutze, and Alexander Helwig...
who painted beaches and shores, typically less populated, include JohnFrederickKensett, William Merritt Chase, Jonas Lie, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
Casilear's interest in art was sufficiently strong to accompany Durand, JohnFrederickKensett, and artist Thomas Prichard Rossiter on a European trip during which...
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